US Patent Issued to President and Fellows of Harvard College on July 28 for "Soft exosuit for assistance with human motion" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,024, issued on July 28, was assigned to President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Soft exosuit for assistance with human motion" was invented by Alan Thomas Asbeck (Cambridge, Mass.), Ye Ding (Cambridge, Mass.), Ignacio Galiana Bujanda (Cambridge, Mass.), Sangjun Lee (Cambridge, Mass.), Diana Wagner (Cambridge, Mass.) and Conor J. Walsh (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing assistance with human motion, including hip and ankle motion, are disclosed. Sensor feedback is used to determine an appropriate profile for actuating a wearable robotic system to deliver desired joi...